After hearing the news, Zhu Zhang and Jiang Shenglin rushed over. They were shocked when they saw Zhu Yanyin sitting on the roof and Li Sui lying on Zhu Yanyin's legs. However, they were shocked in different ways - one was "Why didn't Palace Master Li go back to his bedroom? The roof is not a proper place to sleep. It's late at night and the dew is heavy. What should I do if my young master catches a cold?" and the other was "I'm not seeing wrong, I'm not seeing wrong, I'm not seeing wrong".
Zhu Yanyin put his index finger to his lips and made a soft "hush" sound, signaling everyone to stop making noise, and sent the servant who was about to go up to the house back.
Li Sui was sleeping soundly, his brows were rarely relaxed, and his long eyelashes drooped down, as if he had let down all his defenses. Although he usually didn't look very worried, and even made others look worried, Zhu Yanyin always felt that such a completely relaxed moment should be rare for Li Sui, so he didn't let anyone disturb him and continued to let him rest with his head resting on his legs.
The frosty smell of wine has been blown away by the autumn wind, leaving only the fragrance of plum and orchid in the air, emanating freely from the sleeves of a snow-white coat. It is very faint, but has a calming effect, allowing tired travelers to dream of the distant Jiangnan in May, a place they have never been to.
Zhu Zhang tirelessly brought a thin blanket. Even if he didn't want to get down, he should at least wrap himself in it, in case he caught a cold.
Zhu Yanyin shook his head repeatedly. He originally wanted to ask everyone else to go back, but he woke up Li Sui instead. He half-supported himself to sit up and looked at the people in the yard with some displeasure: "What's the matter?"
Jiang Shenglin used his eyes to remind him subtly that if someone else's rich young master was pulled up to your room to be used as a pillow by you, then of course there would be something wrong.
Li Sui rubbed the bridge of his nose with two fingers, and the usual coldness returned between his brows. He picked up the Xiangjun sword beside him with one hand, jumped back into the yard, and walked into the bedroom without looking around, staggering.
Jiang Shenglin: “…”
The housekeeper breathed a sigh of relief and quickly sent someone to bring the second young master down. Zhu Yanyin kept saying, "Wait a minute, wait a minute!"
Zhu Zhang advised earnestly: "The wind will pick up at night. If you want to continue to enjoy the moon, at least move back to the courtyard."
Zhu Yanyin had a bitter face. What was the point of appreciating the moon? His legs were numb and he had to slow down.
Jiang Shenglin watched everyone help Zhu Yanyin back to the bedroom with mixed feelings. What was going on
He stood in front of Li Sui's window and took another look, and a palm wind suddenly swept towards him.
Jiang Shenglin: “!”
How come you weren't so wary when you were sleeping on someone's legs!
Li Sui closed his eyes again, and fell asleep wrapped in the drunkenness and the remaining fragrance of plum and orchid.
I don’t know if I was dreaming or not, but I felt very peaceful.
The next morning.
Jiang Shenglin appeared at the door holding a teapot.
Li Sui wiped his face with cold water and threw the towel back on the rack: "What's the matter?"
Jiang Shenglin said: "I'll give you some hangover soup."
Li Sui was still hungover and his head was still aching. He drank half the pot in one breath and said, "Thank you."
Jiang Shenglin continued to click his tongue.
Li Sui was annoyed by the noise: "Did you take the wrong medicine?"
Jiang Shenglin, who was just looking forward to the chaos, asked, "Do you still remember that when you got drunk last night, you dragged Mr. Zhu to the roof and used him as your pillow?"
Li Sui: “…”
Jiang Shenglin patted his shoulder and said, "It's okay. Compared with Zhang the blacksmith in Jincheng, who would smash pots and bowls and scold his wife when he got drunk, and finally fell into a ditch and became a bachelor with a crooked neck, your drinking behavior is pretty good and very presentable."
Li Sui: "What else did I do?"
Jiang Shenglin answered lightly, "She just cried for a while, and the collar of the Second Young Master Zhu was soaked, but otherwise she was fine."
Li Sui's face turned cold and he threw a punch.
Jiang Shenglin slipped away very quickly, which showed that the miracle doctor's martial arts skills had improved greatly in the past two years, and it was indeed the result of hard work.
Zhu Yanyin was having breakfast. The conditions here were not as good as those at home in Jiangnan, but the chef of the Zhu Mansion still cooked various dishes every day - that's right, the Zhu Mansion even brought their own chef when they went north this time.
Zhu Xiaosui in the courtyard: "Palace Master Li, so early." She swallowed the second half of the sentence. Why are you here so early
Zhu Yanyin was also quite surprised.
Li Sui walked straight into the room, dragged a chair over and sat opposite him: "What did I say to you last night when I was drunk?"
"Nothing." Zhu Yanyin put down the spoon in his hand, "Nothing."
Li Sui looked at him in silence.
If the big devil showed such an expression of obvious threat and distrust, most people in the martial arts world would be trembling with fear, thinking that they might die soon. But it was different for Mr. Zhu Er. Although he felt a little guilty, he didn't think he would die. He just thought that his face might be grabbed viciously again, so he swallowed the wonton in his mouth in time, gulping.
Li Sui hooked his finger.
Zhu Yanyin shrank back instead and confessed: "I just talked about the crusade against the Demon Cult."
Li Sui's eyes darkened: "What are they?"
Zhu Yanyin explained everything in detail and roughly recalled the brief conversation last night: "That's all."
Li Sui's expression was hard to describe, and his mood was also hard to describe. Just as Jiang Shenglin said, he hadn't been drunk in many years, and he really shouldn't have drunk those extra jars last night.
The hall was very quiet.
After a while, seeing that Li Sui was still not prepared to speak, Zhu Yanyin slowly pushed a bowl of wontons in front of him and asked, "Do you want to eat?"
Li Sui lost his appetite. He stood up and walked to the door, then stopped.
Zhu Yanyin immediately raised his right hand and said, "I know the market very well. I won’t tell anyone unless I tell you!"
Li Sui shook his head secretly and strode out of the courtyard.
Zhu Xiaosui was worried and felt that if she was scared like this every day, she would probably seek help from Dr. Jiang soon.
Zhu Yanyin handed him a candy bag and said, "In fact, Palace Master Li is not that scary."
Zhu Xiaosui totally disagreed. Isn't Palace Master Li scary? A few years ago, a fearless underworld tabloid initiated a contest. Would you rather go to a mass grave alone in the middle of the night and sleep with a headless corpse, or practice martial arts with someone everyone knew? In the end, everyone chose the mass grave.
Zhu Yanyin was very firm and said that it definitely didn’t include everyone, at least not me.
He took some time to look for Jiang Shenglin and brought a box of delicious snacks.
Jiang Shenglin was packing up his medicine box. Seeing his attitude, he guessed almost everything: "Mr. Zhu, do you want to ask about what happened last night?"
"I heard from Palace Master Li that killing Chi Tian would require his life in exchange." Zhu Yanyin probed, "Is that true?"
Jiang Shenglin sighed: "This is a long story, and it has nothing to do with Master Zhu, so it's better not to ask."
"I don't want to pry into other people's past." Zhu Yanyin hurriedly explained, "I just want to tell the genius doctor that if Palace Master Li's old injury requires any rare medicinal materials, just let me know. My third uncle runs a medicinal materials business, and I have several cousins who often go in and out of the palace. It's not a problem to find medicine for them. It's very convenient."
Seeing his sincerity, Jiang Shenglin also smiled and said, "Okay, if you need me in the future, I will definitely not be polite."
Zhu Yanyin then felt relieved and said goodbye and left politely.
The box of snacks was sesame crisps, shaped like snow-white dumplings, and when opened, it looked like pear blossoms falling all over the box in spring. Li Sui pushed the door open and saw Jiang Shenglin holding a silver fork and looking left and right, so he said, "You might have been in the same position when you were stabbing a wild animal in the melon field."
Miracle doctor: “…” Get out of here.
The dessert box was exquisitely made, and it was obvious who made it. Li Sui picked up a snowball, which was made of crispy skin. Of course, the texture was not much better, but he still ate it with disdain: "Give me two more bottles of medicine."
"That's for curing illness, you're just eating candy beans?" Jiang Shenglin put down the silver fork, "If you really need three to five years of recuperation, you can't rush now, you have to take it slow."
Li Sui shook his head: "You are the only one who values my life."
"Not only me, Master Zhu is also curious. He just said that he would go to the palace to find medicine for you." Jiang Shenglin said, "I think he is very sincere. You should be kinder to him in the future."
Li Sui picked up another dessert, thought about it, but didn't eat it. He threw it back and left with the box.
The genius doctor, who was left with nothing, learned his lesson and decided to hide the good things in the future. After all, someone seemed to be possessed by Wong Tai Sin recently, and his behavior was very strange and impossible to guess.
The next day, when the sun rose in the east, the Zhu family's lavish and imposing convoy appeared at the end of the Wulin Alliance's team amidst the golden clouds.
People from Wanren Palace also showed up at the same time. Although people in the martial arts world were afraid of Li Sui, they thought that with him around, there would be less messy internal fighting in the near future - because no one dared to do so, they were quite welcoming.
The weather was cool in the golden autumn. Zhu Yanyin had been riding on the Jade Lion of the Night. He was handsome and elegant, and he wore white clothes and rode a white horse on the mountain path. The red leaves behind him were burning like fire, and it seemed that even the sky and the earth were lit up.
People in the martial arts world: I am shocked, is this the temperament of the legendary prominent families in the south of the Yangtze River
Tan Shuqiu was also jealous, but he remembered the warning from the day before and did not dare to try to establish connections anymore. He racked his brains to write a letter, put it in a carefully selected envelope, and asked someone to pass it to Zhu Yanyin.
Everyone rested in the tea shed.
As soon as Li Sui walked in, he saw the gold-sprinkled letter paper on the table. It was luxurious and exquisite, and quite suitable for the snow-white haired rich young man.
Zhu Yanyin asked: "Who sent it?"
The follower replied: "Young Master Tan of the Canglang Gang."
Li Sui: “…”
Immediately displeased.
Zhu Yanyin did not realize the complicated mental process of Palace Master Li in time. He took a quick look at the letter and said, "It means that what happened after he returned to the Wulin Alliance seems to have gone smoothly."
When Gang Leader Tan heard that the other four had gone out drinking and partying and only his son returned for the right reason, he was naturally happy. After all, no one wanted to have a devil who was obsessed with eating, drinking, gambling, whoring and talking about horse racing at home, so he didn't investigate further.
Zhu Yanyin continued, "As for Cui Wei, Liu Xiyang, Zhao Honghu, and Ge Changye, I asked Brother Mingchuan to keep a close eye on them the day before yesterday. After learning that Tan Shuqiu had returned to the Canglang Gang, there was nothing unusual in their sects. So I guess the withered forest maze was the idea of these four people and has nothing to do with the sect behind them."
Li Sui said: "You are very interested in the affairs of the martial arts world."
"…" I have read so many stories, so naturally I am interested. Zhu Yanyin did not think he was meddling in other people's business. He emphasized: "If we want to go north to eliminate the demons, we must first find out the traitor. Since I am friends with Brother Ming Chuan and Doctor Jiang is also in the team, how can I just let it go and let the demon cult jump around and stir up trouble everywhere?"
Li Suiyouyou looked at him.
Zhu Yanyin added quickly and quietly: "In addition to Brother Ming Chuan and Dr. Jiang, there is also Wanren Palace."
Li Sui sneered: "Aren't you afraid of getting into trouble?"
Zhu Yanyin was stumped by this unfamiliar question.
He thought about Jiangnan's vast wealth, his many uncles and brothers in the court, and the huge network of relationships formed through marriage that included almost all the famous families in Dayu, and said modestly, "Well, a little bit."